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Prevalence and Effects of Functional Vitamin K Insufficiency: The PREVEND Study (Riphage et al.)
Matrix Gla Protein (MGP) is a strong vitamin K-dependent inhibitor of soft tissue calcification. Researchers assessed the…

Calcific aortic valve stenosis: hard disease in the heart (Peeters et al.)
Calcific aortic valve stenosis (CAVS) is common in the ageing population and set to become an increasing…

Vitamins K1 and K2: the emerging group of vitamins required for human health (Schwalfenberg GK)
A Canadian researcher sought to review the evidence for the use of vitamin K supplementation in clinical…

Vitamin K2 supplementation and arterial stiffness among renal transplant recipients: a single-arm, single-center clinical trial (Mansour et al.)
A new study of renal transplant recipients, a group shown to express subclinical vitamin K deficiency and…

Evaluation of antitumor effects of vitamin K2 (menaquinone-7) nanoemulsions modified with sialic acid-cholesterol conjugate (Shi et al.)
Numerous studies have recently shown that vitamin K has antitumor effects in a variety of tumor cells,…

The risk of nephrolithiasis is causally related to inactive matrix Gla protein, a marker of vitamin K status: a Mendelian randomization study in a Flemish population (Wei et al.)
Nephrolithiasis (kidney stones) is the clinical condition characterized by the formation of crystal aggregates in the urinary…

High Dephosphorylated-Uncarboxylated MGP in Hemodialysis patients: risk factors and response to vitamin K2, A pre-post intervention clinical trail. (Aoun et al.)
Vascular calcifications are highly prevalent in hemodialysis patients. Dephosphorylated-uncarboxylated MGP (dpucMGP) was found to increase in vitamin…

The Strategy to Prevent and Regress the Vascular Calcification in Dialysis Patients (Chen et al.)
A new review paper published in BioMed Research International examines the current strategy and treatments for vascular…

Subclinical atherosclerosis is linked to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth via vitamin K2-dependent mechanisms (Ponziani et al.)
The results of an observational study that have recently been published in the World Journal of Gastroenterology…

The synergistic association between vitamin D and vitamin K with incident hypertension (Van Ballegooijen et al.)
A group of Dutch scientists from the Department of Health Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam conducted…